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Saturday, December 10, 2011

Who asked them to come down to Bangalore/Bengaluru..!!

The other day, we three were having breakfast at office..me , a friend, and that friend's friend..it's always good to meet new people, observe them, for every human-being is one of its own kind, special, peculiar and ......simply different..This friend's friend is a "Kannadiga" , who started the conversation with some regular, to be correct, typical questions..like Where are you from..?..From how many months you have been working here?...and finally   the most the important question, as in..the reason why I have made this post today on my blog...

The question was..."So, How did you find Bangalore..as in ..Did you like Bangalore?.."

When she asked me this question, by that time, I had already known from the conversation we had till now, that she wants me to say..nothing else but Yes..!!

But, she had asked this question to a wrong person...I simply smiled and ignored the question..She repeated her question..I did not say anything for a while and then she said.."I think...It's better than Kolkata atleast, I have heard its too dirty kinds of.."..She wanted me to agree to what she had said then..

I finished my last bite of breakfast and said..I did not like Bangalore much(no offence to anyone, I said what I felt)..She asked me for the reasons, why I feel so..

To add or you may say..to support to what I had just said..I added..I don't like traffic at all and its always at its peak in Bangalore..Also the fly-overs are being constructed at every other place..which had made the surroundings dirty throughout the Bangalore..metro-project has also added a lot to it..

She started comparing it with cities of North, Delhi, Gurgaon..etc..and Kolkata(she thought Kolkata is in North)..I wanted to tell her its south-east and North..just because I am a North Indian and I said I did not like Bangalore much because of traffic and pollution..for God's sake..I thought ..I was being asked for my opinion..??

I am so straightforward, I said this to her, I mean you can't be good to all at all the time..

The next statement from her was .."Who asked them to come to Bangalore.?" I said .."sorry? But what do you mean?"

She said when you people feel so "Why do you guys even come here..?Nobody invited you guys.."

I was really irritated by this statement..and lost my temper..I said..I thought government has not put tax or made any rule that you can't go to any other state within the country..I stay in India and I have full right to go & stay anywhere..and by the way who are you to ask this question..Do you own this entire city? Bangalore..? or You are Bangalore's queen and everyone needs to take your permission to enter the city..?

And above all ..just because of people like.."You" ..communism spreads..If educated people like you say this..what do you expect from illiterate ones..I won't feel bad even if I call you educated illiterate.. 

I know I was very rude but I could not stop myself.. And For God's sake, I was asked of my opinion about the city... and it was not a verdict..that people come and fight over it..

Silly ...really it was ..!!



2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Her ego was hurt thats all. I don't understand why people take so much pride in screaming out the name of the city to which they belong. In the hostel this was a common observation.

Mukta Dhanuka said...

Such so called "Literate" people have no sense of respecting other's opinion..so when someone has already decided what the answer should be.. for a question, why the hell do they conduct surveys..?

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